A full lunar eclipse, known as a blood moon because of the sunset red glow the moon takes on, and whether from a scientific or end-time prophecy point of view, it has a lot of people talking.

At 12:53 a.m. ET, the Earth will begin to position itself between the sun and the moon for the first of a series of four total eclipses to conclude in September 2015.

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The rare phenomenon is known as a tetrad, in which the moon is completely covered by the Earth’s shadow for four eclipses in a row, as opposed to only partial eclipses. The moon glows red in the refracted light that spills over the Earth’s circumference.

CNN reported that lunar eclipses - penumbral, partial or umbral - occur in random order. “Getting four umbral eclipses in a row is like drawing a rare lunar poker hand of four of a kind.”

Some Christians who see a prophetical side to the celestial show cite the Bible's book of Acts that says, “And I will show wonders in Heaven above and signs in the Earth beneath, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”

Other Christians counter the belief that the moon eclipses indicate the impending coming of Christ with the verse in the Gospel of Matthew that says, “No one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”

The four blood moons will occur in roughly six-month intervals on April 15; Oct. 8, 2014, April 4, 2015 and Sept. 28, 2015.

The next tetrad will begin in 2032.

Unfortunately for the Upstate and much of the East Coast, the sky will be too cloudy for viewing the rare event.